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emerson
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Joined: May 11, 2007
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Location: Shanghai
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Nov 03, 2008 - 01:06 PM |
 
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Uncle Tom's Cabin--HBS; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--JV. Should have read these when I was younger but I didn't. Both are excellent. |
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Shangstar
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Joined: Feb 07, 2008
Posts: 3388
Location: Spitland
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Nov 03, 2008 - 01:08 PM |
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Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Great book, and really well written. Don't bother with the sequel Long Way Down though. |
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bloomark
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Joined: Apr 28, 2008
Posts: 2803
Location: Reality
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Nov 17, 2008 - 10:56 PM |
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The Art Of The Deal by Donald Trump |
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SnappySammy
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Joined: Nov 01, 2007
Posts: 15114
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Nov 26, 2008 - 12:40 AM |
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Chip Hilton---Hoop Star |
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Yank My Doodle It's A Dandy |
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dougan
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Joined: Oct 02, 2008
Posts: 15
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:10 AM |
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I just read Gargoyle, by Andrew Davidson, and another called Pharmakon, by Dirk Wittenborn.... I really enjoyed both of them.
I don't know if this link works to my book list, or if this is only as a member of GoodReads.com, but here is a link to my favs:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1576004 |
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iara
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Joined: June 09, 2006
Posts: 2676
Location: brazil-shanghai
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Dec 16, 2008 - 08:10 AM |
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Where underpants come from - Joe Bennett - 2008
Writer is british, lives in New Zealand and one day bought a pack of very cheap underpants, made where? China, off course!
Then he decided to come to China and the book is about an odyssey from checkout to cotton fields in CHina.
He came to Shanghai, he went to Bangkok, return to China, and every step he made here, I'm seeing myself there...
Is a good and easy going book, and some of his histories we just believe because we are here! |
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Humac
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Joined: July 07, 2007
Posts: 2269
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Dec 16, 2008 - 09:45 AM |
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Alasdair Gray's Lanark...if you haven't heard of it google it, it's the one book I couldn't do without. |
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bloomark
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Joined: Apr 28, 2008
Posts: 2803
Location: Reality
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Dec 16, 2008 - 01:26 PM |
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A Gossip Girl Novel |
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Medea
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Joined: May 05, 2008
Posts: 1153
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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Dec 18, 2008 - 07:35 PM |
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Martin Winckler - La maladie de Sachs
Miranda Seymour - Mary Shelley
Otfried Preussler - Krabat |
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bloomark
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Joined: Apr 28, 2008
Posts: 2803
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Dec 23, 2008 - 01:28 PM |
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Penthouse. |
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SnappySammy
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Joined: Nov 01, 2007
Posts: 15114
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Dec 23, 2008 - 10:47 PM |
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The Hardy Boys.... |
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billierose
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Joined: Jan 12, 2009
Posts: 57
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Jan 30, 2009 - 09:09 PM |
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Simultaneously reading...
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
George Orwell - Selected Writings
David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Aussie Vogue (yeah baby) |
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Medea
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Joined: May 05, 2008
Posts: 1153
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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Feb 03, 2009 - 04:51 PM |
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Samuel P. Huntington - Who are we |
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franceswang
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Joined: Feb 13, 2009
Posts: 267
Location: shanghai
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Feb 14, 2009 - 07:43 PM |
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Charlaine Harris-the southern vampire series
Stephenie Meyer - twilight Sega |
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Dazza
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Joined: Feb 02, 2006
Posts: 3452
Location: In the city of cold steel
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Feb 14, 2009 - 07:53 PM |
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Jeremy Clarkson - The world according to Clarkson.
Entertaining read. |
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beautiful_mind0905
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Joined: June 18, 2006
Posts: 5790
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Feb 16, 2009 - 08:26 PM |
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Simultaneously reading the following:
1. One World - The Ethics of Globalisation by Peter Singer
2. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
4. Legacy of Ashes - The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
5. Chinese book on a century of news stories with one interesting story on a Centurian posting an ad in 1999 searching for love and companionship |
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emerson
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Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 683
Location: Shanghai
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Feb 16, 2009 - 09:12 PM |
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Moby Dick; Wealth of Nations; Around the World in 80 days |
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onestepcloser
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Joined: Feb 18, 2009
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Feb 18, 2009 - 11:42 PM |
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How to talk about books you haven't read - Henry Hitchings
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Confessions - Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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Chrisse
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Joined: Feb 25, 2009
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Mar 10, 2009 - 03:40 PM |
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Currently reading a swedish book by Henning Mankell, "Kinesen" which basically means "The Chinese". It is a fictional story based on modern Chinese foreign politics and how that is connected to a murder in a small village in Sweden. You Swedish people on this forum, I strongly recommend it! |
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ziccawei
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Joined: Sep 12, 2008
Posts: 6795
Location: Ziccawei
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Mar 12, 2009 - 09:20 PM |
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Nearly finished reading Guns,Germs and Steel which I'm ashamed to say I've never read until now. Fascinating stuff. I like the way the writer looks at history in an archeological fashion (ie, taking away layers of history) rather than a linear fashion (this happened, then that happened, etc). I guess if I wanted to impress someone I could say this is a structuralist approach to history. Oh yeah... |
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franceswang
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Joined: Feb 13, 2009
Posts: 267
Location: shanghai
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Mar 13, 2009 - 11:13 AM |
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It's call break up becoz its broken
Greg is my hero |
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NeilUK39
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Joined: Apr 17, 2005
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Mar 30, 2009 - 01:53 PM |
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That Damned United - By Dave Pearce. Story of Brian Clughs tough 44 days in charge at Leeds Utd in the early 70's. Alternate chapters are also about cloughs days from Footballer through to geeting to Leeds. Story is very well told as Brian Clugh would tell it. Excellent book, the film has also just come out the UK with Michael Sheen (aka Tony Blair in the Queen, Dave Frost in Frost Nixon) plays clough seen clips of the film and Michael Sheen does another sterling job of playing a tough role. |
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NeilUK39
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Joined: Apr 17, 2005
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Mar 30, 2009 - 01:54 PM |
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That Damned United - By Dave Pearce. Story of Brian Clughs tough 44 days in charge at Leeds Utd in the early 70's. Alternate chapters are also about cloughs days from Footballer through to geeting to Leeds. Story is very well told as Brian Clugh would tell it. Excellent book, the film has also just come out the UK with Michael Sheen (aka Tony Blair in the Queen, Dave Frost in Frost Nixon) plays clough seen clips of the film and Michael Sheen does another sterling job of playing a tough role. |
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Medea
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Joined: May 05, 2008
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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Apr 02, 2009 - 07:03 PM |
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Just finished:
Henning Mankell
The White Lioness
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Mao Tse-Tung on Guerilla Warfare |
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tomnoddy_uk
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Joined: Mar 14, 2006
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Apr 28, 2009 - 06:52 PM |
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Blue Planet Run
The world is not using its water resources wisely. Huge photo book with a bunch of facts chucked in about quite a neat project for bringing clean water to 200mn of the 1.1bn odd people in the world that don't have access to clean drinking water. Will gladly lend it out if anyone else wants a read/look. |
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